BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



BLACKBURN 



upon his son John at thelatter's marriage in December 

 141 1 to Margaret daughter of Robert Simondston.^^ 

 Richard Braddyll succeeded and died before 1478, 

 leaving by Joan his wife John, his son and heir/' 

 whose grandson, John Braddyll, entered his pedigree 

 in Flower's visitation in 15 67. 8" The last-named 

 died 16 September 1578 seised of Brockhole in 

 Billington, and of many other estates, including the 

 manor of Simonstone.^' 



The seventh in descent from John Braddyll was 

 Thomas, third son and heir 

 of Dodding Braddyll, who 

 died without issue in 1776, 

 having devised his estates to 

 his cousin Wilson Gale of 

 Conishead Priory, who as- 

 sumed the name of Braddyll 

 by royal warrant in 1776.'^ 

 Brockhall was about 1 800 

 purchased from him by James 

 Taylor of Moreton Hall, 

 Whalley, from whom it has 

 descended to Mr. Henry 

 Wilson Worsley-Taylor, the 

 present owner. 



CC/iVi/f/'fi— Cundeclyve, 

 Cunteclyve, xiii cent. ; Cundeclif, CunclifFe, xiv-xvi 

 cent. 



Robert de Cundeclyve held estates in Billington 

 and the adjoining township of Wilpshire before 1246, 

 and attested local grants to Stanlaw Abbey during 

 the time of Henry III.^' He derived his name from 

 a small estate in Rishton called Gundeclyf or Cunde- 

 clive, which he held of Edmund de Lacy in 1258 

 for zs. rent.^^* Robert his son occurs in 1276, and 

 appears to have held for life the manor of Lostock in 

 Deane parish, in which he had acquired an interest 

 before 1288, probably by marriage.^* Another 

 Robert succeeded and died before I 3 1 9, when the 

 wardship of Robert his son was claimed by Simon de 

 Roland in respect of half the manor of Anderton. 

 The last-named Robert had been married in his 

 father's lifetime to Alice daughter and heir of Stephen 

 de Hamerton of Tadcaster, the patrimony in Billington, 

 Wilpshire and Salesbury being settled upon them and 

 their issue.*^ He held a parcel of land in Billington 

 of the Abbot of Whalley in 1347,'^ and settled his 



Braddyll of Brock- 

 hall. Argent a crass 

 lozengy -verty o'uer all a 

 bend chequy ermine and 

 a'sure. 



mesne manor of Ladyh.ilgh, or Ladyhall, in Anderton 

 upon his son Robert and Margery his wife 



From Robert and Margery de CunlifFe this and 

 the other estates of the family descended to their elder 

 son Adam, whose son and heir Robert was in possession 

 in 1394. Robert resigned his interest in the manor 

 of Pleasington in 1396 to John Ainsworth, and died 

 without issue before 1399, when his uncle Roger 

 Cunliife, a younger son of Robert and Margery, 

 succeeded to the Anderton estate by virtue of some 

 settlement, and apparently to the greater part of the 

 family estates also. Although Roger had a daughter 

 Ellen, wife of Peter Talbot,^' the heir to the estates 

 after Roger's death, which occurred before Christmas 

 1409, was his sister Margaret, wife of Adam de Lever, 

 who at the date named was in possession in right of 

 his wife of ' CunlifFe,' in the town of Billington, and 

 of lands in Wilpshire and Tadcaster, co. York.^^ 



Peter Talbot, ancestor of the Talbots of Carr Hall 

 in Wilpshire, a younger son of Richard Talbot of 

 Slaidburn, in right of his wife Ellen became possessed 

 of the CunlifFe estates in Billington, Wilpshire, Sales- 

 bury and Tadcaster, except the messuage of CunlifFe, 

 which by some means passed to Alan CunlifFe, possibly 

 son of Richard brother of the half blood to Roger 

 CunlifFe. Robert son of Alan CunlifFe, gent., was 

 described as of Billington in 1468, and with Robert 

 CunlifFe of Dinckley was a juror upon an inquest 

 taken in 1477.^' The year following he appears as 

 tenant of the Abbot of Whalley of lands called Broad- 

 meadow and Greenhey.'" 



Robert CunlifFe of Wilpshire, gent., was outlawed 

 in 1 5 14 for the murder of 

 Elias Wood of Dinckley, at 

 which time he held a mes- 

 suage in Billington of the 

 Abbot of Whalley, a tene- 

 ment and 103 acres of land 

 in Wilpshire held of the king 

 by I2(^. free rent, and another 

 in Dinckley of the king in 

 socage.'! jjj I 5 2 1 his lands 



were in the hands of the 



,1^1 c r -^ 1 ^ ■ CoNLiFFE. Same 

 abbot by forfeiture, but in ,i„. „., „ „ , 



J ' tnree coneys courant ar- 



1538 Robert CunlifFe of gent. 

 Billington, gent., held his 

 lands of the abbot freely by a yearly rent of 25/., 



"Towneley MSS. C 8, 13, B 125 ; 

 B 127, 131 ; DD, no. 1265. 



" Ibid. C 8, 13, B 128-30 ; Add. MS. 

 32104, no. 918. Richard married lirst 

 Margaret daughter of William Harrington 

 of Hornby, K.G., by whom he had no 

 issue. 



™ Vint. (Chet. Soc. Ixxxi), 27. The 

 later descents of the family are given fully 

 in Whitaker, Whalley (ed. 1876), ii, 3. 



*i He held Brockhall at his death of 

 Thomas Holcroft, esq., in socage for 

 4i. \Qd, yearly. Edward his son and heir 

 was aged forty-four years ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq, p.m. xiv, 85. 



'^ Burke, Landed Gent. (ed. 1906), 183. 

 8« Whalley Couch. 954. 

 ®^^ Lanes. Inq, and Extents, i, 216; 

 Final Cone, i, 156. 



^ Ibid. 164. In 1276 he appealed 

 Richard son of Geoffrey de Billington of 

 an assault and wounding him at Billing- 

 ton ; Coram Rege R. 20, m. i;. In 1280 

 and 1285 William de Alvetham, the 

 superior lord of half the viU of Billington, 



demanded from Robert son of Robert de 

 Cunteclyve two messuages in the viU ; De 

 Banco R. 36, m. 1 17 d. j 60, m. 50 d. 



'' Towneley MS., Lever Chartul. no. 

 102. Stephen de Hamerton gave Robert 

 and Alice lands and tenements in Tad- 

 caster in 1329 J ibid. no. 103. 



In 13 19 Simon de Holand demanded 

 from Stephen de Hamerton custody of the 

 land and heir of Robert de Cundeclyve 

 which belonged to him because the land 

 and heir of Thomas de Anderton, of whom 

 Robert held by knight's service, were then 

 in his hand ; De Banco R. 231, m. 121. 



*^ Whalley Couch. 950 ; Robert son of 

 Robert de Cundeclif released lands in 

 Wilpshire to Adam de Clitheroe, kt., in 

 1327 ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 1200. In 

 1337 he exchanged lands in Wilpshire 

 with Robert son of Sir Adam de Clitheroe, 

 kt. ; ibid. 1 1 92. 



Robert son of Robert de Cunliffe, with 

 his brothers Henry and John, was pre- 

 sented at a county court held at Wigan 

 for riotously assembling with a multitude 



of armed men at Clitheroe on Saturday 

 before St. Mary Magdalene, 1350, to the 

 terror of the people ; Assize R. 4.52, m. i, 



^^ See the account of Anderton. 



^s Coram Rege R. 774, m. 28 ; Lever 

 Chartul. 104-12. William de Wetherby, 

 vicar of Blackburn, and John Cunliffe, 

 aen., as trustees, granted an annuity of 

 12J marks from the estates of Robert 

 son of Adam Cunliffe in 1399 to Adam 

 Lever, and the same year put Roger 

 Cunliffe in possession. 



In 1409 Adam Lever and Margaret his 

 wife passed the estates to trustees. In 

 1418 Margery relict of Roger Cunliffe 

 had dower in four messuages, 200 acres of 

 land in Wilpshire, Salesbury and Billing- 

 ton ; Pal. of Lane. Chan. Misc. bdle. i, 

 fol. 14, no. 25. 



89 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 34, m. 38 d. ; 

 Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 103. 



90 Whitaker, Whalley., i, 120. 



^^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, 63 5 

 Towneley MS, DD, no. 1263. See the 

 account of Dinckley. 



